Virtualization of the Application Roles
The next likely candidates for virtualization include the SharePoint server with one or more service application roles (otherwise known as the application server). Application servers can include various service applications, such as Access Services, PerformancePoint Services, and the Managed Metadata Service. For purposes of design, this excludes the search services, which are technically service applications, but for architectural purposes are usually classified as part of a different server role.
As Table 12.1 shows, the typical virtualized application server consists of a VM with two virtual processors and a minimum of 6GB of RAM allocated to it. It needs a single VHD that’s presized in the 50GB to ...
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